December 2004 - Posts

Cortlen Cannon, Corbin Cannon

While playing with Google, my wife discovered that my son's name does not appear anywhere on the internet.

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Cortlen+Cannon%22 comes up with no matches.

This is an attempt to fix that.  Sorry to anyone looking for anything computer related.


UPDATE

After about a day and a half, he his now the only hit in google!

posted Thursday, December 30, 2004 9:23 AM by robcannonsoftware with 0 Comments

Adobe Reader 7.0 is out

 
One of the new feature is:
 
  • Experience better overall performance for faster launch times and real-time zooming and panning
 
Does that mean we no longer need the Adobe Reader Speedup program?  It really does seem to load up fast.
 
BTW, they now try to load the Yahoo toolbar on install.  You can opt-out, but it's annoying to have to deselect all of the extra software.
 

 

posted Wednesday, December 22, 2004 6:00 AM by robcannonsoftware with 0 Comments

Catan is available to play

MSN has unleashed Settlers of Catan, one of my favorite boardgames, as an online computer adaption.

But, it costs $29.95 and there are lots a free alternatives out there.

And did I mention that it is buggy?  I tried the free trial version and it crashed twice before I could finish a game (I guess the didn't use .NET!). 

Now the trial period (one hour) has expired and I can't use the game.

But the MSN version does look nice...  Maybe after some bug patches.

posted Tuesday, December 21, 2004 6:24 PM by robcannonsoftware with 0 Comments

Visual Studio Team System Beta2 date? 2/14/05

A schedule of blog entries about Visual Studio Team system has been posted by the Program Manager of that product.

One item that jumped out at me was:

14-Feb    Getting Started with Beta 2

So, can we infer that Beta 2 is coming out on or around Feb 14? 

BTW, there are no entries about the final release....

posted Friday, December 17, 2004 5:40 AM by robcannonsoftware with 0 Comments